Scammers in Philippines

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Richelle Robles Briones Fraudster- Mandaue City- General Santos City

fake passport and student ID by Richelle Robles

Airfare Ticket Scenario

Dear Filipino Investigator,
The lady in question is Richelle Robles Briones
Her address is 463 Ilang-Ilang st, Brgy. Bantayan, Mandaue City , Cebu , 6014 Philippines
She was due to come to me in Singapore and I had paid for her a businerss class ticket via Blue Horizons Travel & Tours, Inc Unit 1 G/F Zeraus Bldg. Gorordo Ave. Cebu City 6000 Philippines Tel:+ (63)32 232-8886 Dorothy Engle Travel Consultant
She was supposed to go yesterday to pay for the shortfall on the ticket because of exchange rate differences and bank charges. I was unable to contact her on her cell phone +639 067 345 147.after 9.00 am yesterday
I received this email from her e mail address:

“Hello Lance,
im Lyca Sandoval Castro who is best friend of Richelle Briones and before i tell everything i would like to say Good eveming to you i will inform you that richelle is now in the hospital, she been in accident of those steal man who got here bag while she in going to Immigration and a bad situation she got fighting to those men who got her bag inckuded her cellfone and passport and little amount inside the bag she is have big sliced cut in her arms becoz of the deadly weapon using those men who got her bag and some important things inside the bag
she going arround at 12 noon here time but in a not expected accident she is now wounded, her mother keep crying that richelle been hurts bad and have her wound big in her right arms while she got fighting to those men and now she lost her passport and cellfone and 6,000 pesos inside the bag. She will going to pay the Immigration and wanting to meet Dorothy in Immigration but before she arrive in the Immigration theres 2 men who tried to got obstacle her way and have knife to use to put in her neck and the 2 men told her give the back then she had tried to fight those men until she had hurts and the one men had hammer his knife to richelle hand. Her mother is very crying and crying until now becoz richelle still have nope her condition to wake up becoz of lot of blood lost herself her mother told me also that can u make cancel her flight going to singapore becoz of her situation now very critical pls dont got mad to richelle and hope u have to understand her situation that she didnot come and get fly to you tomorrow becoz of this.

Thank you,
Lyca ..”

I have been sending money (6,000euros) over a period of time to support her and her mother .
I am now very concerned because if she is injured I need to assist her BUT if she is not then I have been stupid.
If she is injured i need to contact her so i will need the hospital or a contact telephone number.
If so i will fly to Cebu and I will stay at the Hilton.
I need this cleaned up as quickly and as discretely as possible.
Your fees are not a problem
I look for your reply and course of actionas soon as possible
Regards
L.B. Flowerdew

To view the Result of Investigation. Please click: RESULT OF INVESTIGATION 

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1. Mincel Dumdum and Anchilla Dumdum from Iloilo City-Bacolod City are the most notorious sisters so far. Who scammed $14,000usd from Jerry Kemp (Name published with Permission)
“THE SCAM OF MINCEL and ANCHILLA DUMDUM and Co.”
(AKA Sheilla Ann, Atty Agnes Parreno, Danya Garganera)
To read the whole story please click here

1. Last September 2008 John Mcpherson contacted us:

My name is John. I had been communicating with a Filipina in Ozamis City for the past 9 months. I sent her packages and money to come here. She told me that she worked with a financial firm A1 Financial there in Ozamis. She was due to arrive here last Friday in Atlanta but never came. Her cell phone is now turned off and I have heard nothing on IM or email either. I have a friend who had her sister-in-law who lives in the Philippines contact A1 Financial and the HR department there says that they have no employee there using the name that she gave me. I need closure and need t know if this was a scam or if she was for real and what happened. She received packages there at A1 Financial in Ozamis City from me. She also told me that it was a very small office there which I have verified since. They have only four employees there. I have sent her several packages via the US Post Office and an IKOBO card that was delivered via FEDEX to her home address. I have many pictures, cell phone numbers, money transactions, and in particular pictures of her wearing the ring that I recently sent her that she received in early September.  Her name is Keziah Dasigan Gonzalez with the address: purok 1 villa consuelo,ozamiz city 7200. Thank you so much

Her stolen pics:

    

Result of investigation:

With sought the help of Ozamis Police City and we found out the the pictures above were not of Keziah Dasigan Gonzales. This unknown poor lady’s pics was stolen by Keziah for her scamming activities. Presumably, the source of those pics were from Friendster of unknown account.  We have also discovered that Keziah isnt alone on this swindling schemes, one  informant estimated that this gang is composed of more or less 7 persons (gays and females), whose hobby is internet chatting, and there,  they are looking for unwary foriegners as their prey.

They have created numerous fictitious Handle names on different on-line dating sites such as: cebuana.com, filipinofriendfinder.com, asiaeuro.com and other dating sites.

We also check A1 financial Services Inc in Ozamis City if they have a personnel in the name of Keziah D. Gonzales, the result is negative. The gang just merely used the name of the lending firm. They also assured us of their cooperation for the arrest of these scammers.

The true identity of Keziah:

March 06 2008

On March 06, 2008, a certain Arnel Arroyo sent me an e-mail:

earoflightuk@yahoo.com wrote:

Hello Sir,
 
Good Day.
 
Actually, I have the same experience and your client with the same person. I met this lady thru the website of www.cebuanas.comlast July 2007. After a series of exchanging e mails and calls we have the mutual feelings and relationship. She Introduce herself as Kezia D. Gonzales 25 y.o  from Purok 1, Villa Consuelo Subdivision Ozamis City. She is working in one A1 Financial Co. They are 3 siblings and she is the eldest. Her mom is an elementarry teacher and the father passed away already. She ask me that she wanted to stay away from her parents and have her own place and want to rent an apartment. So I told her that it is a good idea and she ask me to send her a funds where she will used as a down-payment. At first I was hesitant because she is already asking for money. I  have 2 colleagues who went for a vacation who came from  Oroqueta which is closed to Ozamis. She don’t want to met my friends since she is just busy. But instead she insisted that the funds of 9000 pesos will be sent to her thru Western Union. I was already suspecting that there something fishy around. I am also wondering why every-time I will ask her to send me a picture and I wanted different type of location she can also provide it to me. Since I am still in doubt of her identity  I ask my lady friend who is in Cagayan to look and find out, because Keziah told me that she is now in a Care Giver School which is also mentioned in your report. My lady friend found out that she is not in Cagayan but in Ozamis City school of caregiver . She has more than 30 pictures with me right now. I promised to her that we are going to met last December but unfortunately I was not able to met her since I was busy with my inlaws that also spent vacation in the Phillippines. So I don’t have a chance to met her until now I was not able to contact her but her mobile phone is ringing. Until I saw her name in the net and I have seen your report. Lucky me it is only 9000php that i was sent to her. I know this is the same Keziah that we are all talking. I still have my 2 friends in Oroqueta and I ask my lady friend to look and do background info about her. I try to locate the IP address that she is using when sending e mails but her Yahoo mail is already disable. I tried to open the pictures that she is using and her real pictures in the website that you posted but I can’t download it. If you don’t mind can you send me some of her real pic and the one stolen that she is using? so that I can compare it to my own one here and I can send it to you too. Can you please forward my message to your client in states so that one way or another he will know that he is not alone as a victim by this Keziah Gonzales. Her mobile is still ringing till this time. She must face the consequences for what she did….at my surprised I saw her name in your posted report…bingo…..this is the girl…. Thank you!

The Truth:

Keziah’s mother is not a teacher nor have been a teacher. Keziah has a daughter out of wedlock. Their primary source of living is through swindling. Living in a slum place of Ozamis City, Keziah adopted what was the scarlet was saying in an opera ” I shall never go hungry again!”

2. Another Scammer:

Subject: Mr. Barredo A.k.a Juvel Acosta Mercado.

Address (given by the subject when the client first met her): # 3 Lanton District, Apopong, and General Santos City.

Cell Phone: 905-876-1825.

Date of Birth: February 4, 1983.

Below are the revelations of our client:

As I got to know her more, I asked her to move closer to her work ( Davao Asian Distributors,) and she gave me this address: Door #7  JM Apartments, Corner Lapu-Lapu-Champaca street, Brgy.Dadiangas East, GSC

When I was in the Philippines last February 2007 without her knowing, (it was planned to surprise her) I hired a taxi in order to find all the addresses that she gave me but I had no luck in finding her. We lost touch from there, and last April, we established communication again. Blaming me that I didn’t informed her, she could have stayed in Gensan and waited for my arrival, she said she moved to Koronadal with this address: Mark Store, JP Rizal St. Koronadal City, South Cotabato.

This is how the scammer explained her relationship with the owner of Mark Store:

Mark Acosta supposedly owns the store with his wife Merly Acosta. According to Juvel, her uncle Mark Acosta is a tricycle driver in Koronadal. Mark and Merly Acosta has two children, namely: Lanie May Acosta, who’s studying at KNCHS and Janice Acosta, who’s a first year student at Mindanao State University (MSU) this coming school opening. She said the store is a walking distance from Koronadal National Comprehensive High School (KNCHS).

Juvel Acosta Mercado is an orphan and was adopted by Mark when she was 5 yrs. old. Mark is the brother of Juvel’s mother, Jocelyn Acosta Mercado who died together with her husband, Genie Mercado in a 1988 vehicular accident. They are both buried in a Koronadal cemetery.

To make the story short, I fell in love with her, and I supported her plan to establish an internet café business in Koronadal. So I kept sending her money partially through Western Union Money Transfer. On May 8, she opened a PNB account in Gensan. Her ATM acct # is 405 57 6442-0 which instantly I sent $5,000USD. I have sent her over $10,000USD within two months.

My suspicions begin when after sending the money into her bank account, she can never be contacted again. Her four (4) contact numbers cannot be reached until now.

I kept the photos which she sent to me. (see attached pics below)

-END-

The client hired Undercover to search the real identity of this person. Juvel Acosta Mercado.

Result:

Result of investigation shows that name Juvel Acosta Mercado is just an alias, even NSO has no record of it , much more the COMELEC  and LTO has no such name ever existed in their files. All her stories are all untrue.

Surprisingly, this bugus has abled to produce a Baranggay Clearance from the Office of the Punong Baranggay, of Brgy Dadiangas East, GenSan City (see attached pics below), certifying that the subject is a resident of Lapu-lapu Street of said Baranggay. When the Baranggay Secretary was confronted, he confirmed that he really signed the document without making any verifications from  corresponding  purok leader. It only signifies that Baranggay Clearance is not reliable nowadays.

We sought the help of Philippines National Bank (PNB-Gensan Branch), and through proper correspondence our request was granted, we were abled to have the real identity of alias Juvel. He is a gay and must be a professional scammer. He is using a fake MSU Identification Card. (see attached pics below) His real name: Mr XXXX Barredo. (Name withheld as the charge is still to be filed)

Our Objective has been met. Our mission to uncover the identity of alias Juvel Acosta Mercado is accomplished! But even so, its up to our client to decide if he is interested to run after this fraudster and recover what had he lost from this scammer.

This case involves Money Laundering, Identity Thief , Forgery, Fraud and other criminal acts. THIS KIND OF PEOPLE SHOULD PAY AND BE PUT BEHIND BARS.